I don't think that either
a) "anachronism" can properly be referred to as a sociological context, or
b) you spend much time being "anachronistic" <g>
On another note, guess what I'm doing these days? Hard disks are so damn cheap now, I'm using them as removeable media.
On each new project, I just go out and buy a 4 gig for a hundred bucks, slap it in my handy "removeable drive carriage" and go to work. Check THIS out: on important projects, I'll go out and buy ANOTHER 4 gig, and mirror the project files at the end of each day to have a redundant backup. Hell it's just a hundred bucks!
And my media can be used on nearly any PC in existence. <g>
And I sacrifice NO performance whatsoever.
And it's totally reliable.
And it's easily transportable.
And it's infinitely rewritable.
And it doesn't need device drivers.
And it runs on any OS (since I usually use FAT)
The software that enables this is the PowerQuest stuff -- without DriveImage and Partition Magic this type of large volume manipulation would be prohibitive. Ergo, at least for ME, PowerQuest has been the KILLER APP driving MASSIVE HDD demand. I now have 45 gigs of HDDs lying around the office, and I buy more every month. What a hoot! Screw Jaz and Sparq and Zip and all that other driver-ridden, anti-compatibility prone, media-corrupting, SLOW stuff! |
